Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-15
About Hats.
HOW CHARACTER Il PORTRAYED BIT faR DIFFERENT

HOW CHARACTER Il PORTRAYED BIT TIE DIFFERENT
STYLES.
Did you ever observe, asks the st. Paul Globe,
that mans disposition can be read by the style
OF hat he wears and the way he wears It? Not SO
with woman. There is more diversity OF style
| In women's hats than mems. But woman always
| wears her hat according to the way she has her
| hair fixed up. so that womans hat can be no
index to female character.
It is different with men. There is a close in
timacy between the styles OF mems headgear and
the science OF phrenoiogy. The hat is, the bump
Of Character When a man BUYS hat he Is gov .
erned In the selection by the peculiar organism Of
the brain, 1t doesn't make any difference
whether the particular hat he selects Is becoming
to him or not, he prefers 1t because he is built
| that way. II he wears an unbecoming hat he is
mot resPT Ssn he i 1 man never looks in
does.
The tall silk hat denotes financial ability. Bank
ers, hotel clerks and police reporters always wear
silk hats Rich men do not always wear silk hats,
nor are men who wear silk hats always rich STILL
SIX mat Is an cnsrng sign Of capaty for
who possesses financial ability that gets ricn nor
is It every man who gets rich that possesses skill
the public mind may not get &c confused s on
| these points
the derby hat denotes energy. A man who
on the 60 1t is a ready for al-occesions hat It
is at home whether at church or on the baseball
tween the silk and the SLOUGH. 1t s an accommo-
dating hat The clergyman looks ell In it. and 1t
hts the bartender to q st." And &ll the time It
has pushing go-aheaditiveness ipfits appearance
| that makes everything side-switch when the derby
passes by.
And then there is the SLOUGH hat. An, there Is
the hat OF liberty for you. The SLOUGH hat is the
original old commOner. 1t Is the hat for the
masses-demOcratic in style and republican in its
| simplicity. There is nothing that symbolizes
pure, unadulterated AmerlcaniSm so well as the
SLOUGH hat The SLOUGH hat denotes socability. 1t
Is the unfailing index OF general temperament. 1t
means that the wearer Is a good fellow that will
| do to tie to. He may be q bank president or he
may be cOwbOw still you can rely on his being q
hale companion wherever you meet him, possess
Ing sturdy independence OF character, and always
ready to extend helping hand wherever 1t is
The man who wears his hat perpendicularly,
whether 1t Is tile, derby, q SLOUGH, has the
bump OF Self-esteem well developed. He thinks
that he Is the upper crust OF the pie and identified
10 recognition. The man who wears his hat down
over the forehead Is q thoughtful man. He is
stud10uS and cOmmuneS with himself O great deal
and sometimes inclined to morOseness
But the man who wears his hat on the back of his
mead Is the one VINO doesn't care whether school
keeps or not He Is independent and self-reliant,
and one Gay Is with him as another He takes
note OF neither time nor individuals He is usually
popular because he Is always generous. Sailors
and soldiers and jockeys and baseball players
are not included in this classification because they
always wear CABS.